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It has been eight years since Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 disappeared with all 239 people on board presumed dead.

The plane departed Kuala Lumpur on March 8, 2014, but 38 minutes into the flight to Beijing, it lost contact with air traffic control and plummeted into the sea.

What followed was one of the most expensive underwater crash site searches in aviation history funded by Malaysia, China, and Australia, who eventually called the whole thing off in 2017 when nothing was found.

The same thing happened with the second three-month search led by US firm Ocean Infinity the following year.

Meanwhile, conspiracy theories have been plentiful, together with several pieces of marine debris that washed up on the coasts of the western Indian Ocean during 2015 and 2016.

We recorded two instances of two different people finding a chunk of the mysterious Boeing 777-200ER aircraft, one in Mossel Bay and one in KZN.

None of the washed-up evidence of the crash reaped any closure for the aviation industry or the families of the lost ones from the plane.

Now a British aerospace engineer, who helped design part of the International Space Station, has released a report claiming to know the exact location of the plane, The NZ Herald reported.

Richard Godfrey released his report, encouraging Australian air safety investigators to renew their search for MH370.

Godfrey reckons the plane is in a precise location in the northern part of the search zone many experts believe the plane to be, too: 1 933 kilometres due west of Perth, 4 000 metres underwater:

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau’s involvement in the search for the plane officially concluded five years ago, but the bureau’s new chief commissioner, Angus Mitchell, has renewed focus on “the largest unsolved mystery of our time”.

“We are going over all the old data, looking for anything that might have been missed,” Mitchell told the Sky News documentary.

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“Because it [the report] puts the aircraft in an area that we have already searched, I guess me coming in with a due diligence and a new set of eyes, we are taking a review of the data that we hold there and that’s being done with Geoscience Australia.”

There have been promising leads before, giving false hope to the families, but Godfrey’s research is “credible” according to Mitchell.

Godfrey hopes his use of ham radio technology and Weak Signal Propagation Reporter (WSPR), alongside satellite data, oceanography data, and drift analysis, will be enough to track the aircraft remains.

Per 7News, Mitchell said it is of utmost importance to locate the aircraft “to provide answers and closure to the families of those who lost loved ones,” as well as pretty much anyone who flies planes.

The results of the review are expected to be finalised in the coming weeks and will be made public on The Australian Transport Safety Bureau’s website.

[sources:7news&nzherald]